Peter Jung

Peter Jung has been a professional photographer for over 20 years, starting as a freelance photojournalist. He has focussed recently on portait and wedding photography. His photos can focus on colour photography or black and white in the woods or at the sea side so he covers a range of parts.

I chose this photograph to look at as it's more the style I am going for. I decided to do a shoot on a family walk where my family always goes as it means something to me. As the weather we expecting is meant to be really sunny I could use a higher ISO to get a possible grainy effect but I would like to do it in black and white as I could get some nice shadowed effects from the trees highlighting the dark and lighter parts of the countryside.

This photo seems to have been taken underneath the tree in the shade as part of the photo is exposed a bit to much and I think a ISO about 1200 might have been used as it's not 100% sharp but still majority is clear.

Peter Jung and Joseph Cornell

This shoot was a landscape shoot at the woods where my family always go for walks. I was really lucky as it was extremely sunny so using the black and white effect was great. I used black and white (dynamic) mode on my camera with my ISO about 1200. I focussed mainly on angles and lighting trying to find the best effect as I loved standing underneath the trees to get the shadows of the trees standing out completely agaisnt the landscape behind it being really sunny.

Photoshop

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This is one of my favourite images I have ever done and really pleased with how this came out. This was an old photo of mine of my past family and I re-created it by still keeping the old family in but with my new family photoshopping them in. Once I layed them on with the cut out monolaser tool I had to dodge and burn the photo, even though the photo I took was with an ISO of 6400 on the left the people I cut onto the photo still seemed quite sharp so I had to dodge and burn them out so they looked naturally part of the picture compared to the other people.

The Notebook

The Notebook is one of my favourite films and I watched it the other day and thought how it would be great for inspiration for my documentary shoot on my grandparents from the love letter.
The notebook is all about a man and woman who fall in love in the 1920s/30s and how they have developed together throughout to the years until old age which was what the context of my shoot will be about.



Toby Deveson

Toby Deveson has been taking photographs since 1989 and is a black and white photographer who studies landscape and documentary. He also uses the dark room for his edits which would be good to use as I haven't used the dark room yet during my exam topic and it also shows elderly times in photography. His photos also seem to have a grainy/film effect to them which will reflect my ones of my grandparents as I wanted to show elderly age but also a modern way of having the photos crisp and in focus.

This photo doesn't reflect what I want to do in the shoot but I think this photographer/picture reflects good inspiration and has aspects that I want to get from it such as the black and white or the ISO part.

I love the way this photo is so nautural with the children to the right and the man on the bike on the left riding. It shows different personalities of people and what people do everyday. I think the ISO been used would have been about 1200 to keep it sharp and focussed but to show that it is an older picture.

Joseph Cornell 3 (&Toby Deveson)

This shoot is to with old and new. I have a picture of my family from about 80 years ago with everybody outside their house and I wanted to re-create that with modern day with my modern family. My shoot consisted of making sure the aperture was correct as it was outside. I also then tried out using black and white with an ISO about 6400 which gave it a grainy effect like the oldfashioned picture.
I would like to try on photoshop and edit my family out and edit them onto the older picture to show generations.

This was the original old picture.

The new picture with an ISO of 6400.

The updated normal coloured picture.

Joesph Cornell 2

Over the weekend I had my family over as it was mothers day and had a lovely day as we had perfect weather to. As I wanted to try out documentary photography of my nan and grandad as of the old love letter on valentines day. I took a shoot of my nan and grandad in black and white as I feel black and white can look very much documentary style.

Research and inspiration

http://www.frameworksinstitute.org/assets/files/PDF/youth_public_perceptions.pdf

This is a website with a powerpoint talking about the change in society of teenagers and families. I thought I would add this in as it just links to how I am looking back at life and peoples possessions and I also thought it was really interesting.

"Much of the public’s critique of teens revolves around parents’ perceived inability to be involved with their children and teach them the right values. It is not just the elderly who question the lack of values they see in our youth; parents of teenagers share the same concerns. Teens seem vulnerable to strong external forces: drugs, alcohol, violence, sex, and the media. Without the right values to immunize them from negative influences, teens could fall victim to these pressures."

A journal

I have decided even though my blog has always been a backup of what I have been doing in my work I thought for this project as I am looking at family history and past memories I thought this blog could be an on-going journal like somebodies in the past. So I will be updating my blog with current issues or memories I have collected and what they mean to me and what I am going to do with them.

Valentines letters

My great gran got given when she was younger a lovely valentines letter with a envelope where he drew the village on and wrote about his love for her. I really thought their could be something developed from it and I didn't want to do something basic of shooting the old letter against a new valentine days card, I wanted to show a bit more creativity so I want to go and move onto a documentary shoot of an old couple in my family (ie my nan and grandad) to show how they are still madly in love and how they have grown in love and age.

Old and new

I have started to collect loads of old memories of my family so things like valentine letters, pictures, hats, maps, birth certificates etc. I am taking pictures of them or re-creating them so for example editing old and new parts together of the present and past. I have also decided to recreate memories of my own and compare them to back then to show the differences in society.

Changes in society: back in the olden days they would have maids or cleaners and that can happen now but you'd have to be quite rich to have that. Teenagers have changed in society ever since the 1960s but teenagers are much more open minded and rebellious now where as back then it would have been 'seen and not heard'. Houses have changed as they are much bigger, now have insulation and bricks with cars outside.

Ideas: taking a picture of something already done so an old house and a new house or I could hold up the old picture against the new place so it is contrasting.

Jospeh Cornell 1

This shoot I used depth of field mostly to get the effect of the birth certificate being really sharp. I used my birth certificate and an old one and placed on a old map of where I live and where my Great nan lived. I used natural lighting and placed it against the window to get a nice light effect. I also edited the photos using the clarity on Picnik.

Ideas...

Joseph Cornell and Holly Lackner 1

This shoot was taken at school using the white background studio and lamps for a lighting shoot. I really liked the outcome especially on some of the photos where I used depth of field to have certain parts in focus against other parts which were blurred. The shoot was looking at my hobbies and memories I have collected over the years of swimming.

My pictures

I was going through my familes old photos and letters the other day and just took some photos of them all collaged together, it wasn't using anything inspired by a photographer or photography techniques they were just simple photos layed-out to show family generations and an inspiration for my work I am doing.